About this episode

The episode discusses the upcoming May Day and various labor issues including strikes and the fight for workers' rights across different organizations and locations.

May Day is this week! Nationwide shutdown, bring your community together and hit the ruling class where it hurts, the bottom line! Getting to our regular headlines, we have stories from Starbucks, Harvard, REI, the University of California, Samsung, Bangladeshi gig workers, Portuguese nurses, and the workers of Brazil. For our main stories, first we discuss a strike by workers at Illinois State University, who are fighting just to afford to live where they work. A recently launched initiative, Union Now, aims to harness the energy workers have to support organizing, we discuss the possible implications. Finally, we do a deep dive into the countrywide assault on speech on university campuses, and the ongoing war by the ruling class to silence any voice but their own. Join the discord: discord.gg/tDvmNzX Follow the pod at instagram.com/workstoppage, @WorkStoppagePod on Twitter, John @facebookvillain, and Lina @solidaritybee

Topics covered

• May Day
• worker strikes
• union organizing
• freedom of speech
• community action
• labor rights

Keywords

• May Day
• worker strikes
• Illinois State University
• Union Now
• labor rights
• freedom of speech
• community action

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Starbucks, Harvard, REI, University of California, Samsung, Bangladeshi gig workers, Portuguese nurses, workers of Brazil, Illinois State University, Union Now

Places: Brazil

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